Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wartime President and three times Premier of France; after four years of ill health; in Paris. A squat, white-bearded, glacial man with a prodigious memory, he set "liquidation of the War" as his great goal, was responsible for French occupation of the Ruhr, staved off financial panic at home, retired in 1929 after consolidating France's War indebtedness to Britain...
...there panic among the passengers...
...Upstairs panic-stricken State functionaries tore about with flying coattails, locking the thin, white doors that were now the Cabinet's sole defense. Swinging rifle butts like battering rams, the invaders crashed down door after door, advancing slowly and methodically through the vast building and making up batches of hostages as they went. "This lot is to be shot first, if we are attacked. That lot next...
President Conley's entry into osteopathy parallels the path of many another osteopath. The 1893 panic forced him to cease studying sanitary engineering at Purdue University. He became a railway mail employe, developed "consumption." An osteopath declared the "consumption" was due to an old injury, gave young Mr. Conley manipulations. The patient recovered, studied osteopathy himself, became an osteopathic surgeon, teacher and office holder...
...Harrison, he wrote: "If you agree with me that the dollar is still valued too high . . . that the regulation of the value of the dollar should not be intrusted to the same private selfish interests whose manipulations of our money and credit brought on the most destructive and costly panic in history . . . then let me have your cooperation in the form of a message which may be given publicity and filed with the President...